Dramaturgy in the Classroom: Teaching Undergraduate Students Not To Be Students

Dramaturgy in the Classroom: Teaching Undergraduate Students Not To Be Students

Proposes that a crucial task facing a theater professor teaching an undergraduate dramaturgy class is to force the students to stop thinking like students. Notes that the tendency of students to assume that the professor knows more than they do poses a particular problem in teaching dramaturgy. Sugg...

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Published in:Theatre topics Vol. 13; no. 1; p. 135
Main Author: Mazer, Cary M
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 01-03-2003
Subjects:
Audience Awareness
Classroom Environment
Critical Thinking
Dramaturgy
Higher Education
Playwriting
Student Attitudes
Teacher Student Relationship
Teaching Methods
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Summary:Proposes that a crucial task facing a theater professor teaching an undergraduate dramaturgy class is to force the students to stop thinking like students. Notes that the tendency of students to assume that the professor knows more than they do poses a particular problem in teaching dramaturgy. Suggests that one of the central tools for teaching dramaturgy is to replicate in the classroom the director-dramaturg relationship in the professor-student relationship. (PM)
ISSN:1054-8378
DOI:10.1353/tt.2003.0013